Monday, August 25, 2014

Gluek's Brewery.
Signed and dated "G.S.K.'89" l.r. Oil on canvas, showing the brewery,
horse-drawn carriages, a freight train, two Victorian houses, and an
extensive group of brewery outbuildings, many of which are identified:
the stable, the ice house, and the bottlery, 28 1/2 x 40 in., in a
molded wood frame.

Note: Gluek's Brewery was founded in
Minneapolis on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1858 by Gottlieb
Gluek. He ran a successful business, and despite the hurdles of an 1880
fire, Gottleib's untimely death shortly thereafter, and Prohibition, the
Brewery was still operating independently under family control until it
was acquired in 1964. Beer was sold under the Gluek label until 2010,
and a restaurant named after the venerable brewing family still operates
in downtown Minneapolis.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

This box from the New Bedford
Whaling Museum's outstanding scrimshaw collection was made between 1840
and 1856 of whale bone and ivory, mahogany, wood and tortoiseshell. It
employs hands and stars as decorative motifs.